WBA Mission
The mission of the Women's Business Association is to provide all women at Owen with social and professional opportunities to interact, exchange ideas, network, and develop strong business leadership skills to ensure success while at Owen and long after graduation.
Membership Requirements
All women at Owen are members of the Women's Business Association. In order to make certain that each woman feels a part of the organization, we charge no membership dues.
Faculty Advisor
Professor Nancy Lea Hyer is the WBA advisor. She received her Ph.D. and M.B.A. from Indiana University and B.A. from University of Richmond. Professor Hyer teaches courses on process analysis and redesign, project management and operational excellence in both the full time and the executive MBA programs at Owen. Before joining the Owen faculty, Professor Hyer was operations research manager for Hewlett-Packard's Network Measurements Division in Santa Rosa, CA. Professor Hyer's research on cellular manufacturing has appeared in numerous journals including Harvard Business Review, Decisions Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, Manufacturing Engineering, and International Journal of Production Research. She is the author of a forthcoming book, Reorganizing the Factory: Competing through Cellular Manufacturing. For more information, please visit Professor Hyer's Web Site.
